Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

Computer scientist
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  • BSc & MSc: University of Tehran
  • PhD: University of Waterloo
Scientific careerInstitutionsUniversity of Wollongong, University of CalgaryThesis Error Correcting Codes, Combinatorial Designs and Weighted Majority Decoding  (1978)Doctoral advisorIan F. Blake Websitepages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~rei/ Edit this at Wikidata

Reihaneh "Rei" Safavi-Naini (Persian: ريحانه صفوی نائينی) is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security[1] at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Education

Reihaneh received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada,[2] under supervision of Prof. Ian F. Blake. She obtained her BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran.

Career

Before joining University of Calgary in 2007, she was a Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics and the Director of Telecommunication and Information Technology Research Institute (TITR) and Centre for Information Security at the University of Wollongong, Australia.[3]

She is the co-founder of the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance and served as its director until December 2018. She is currently leading the Information Security Lab (formerly known as the iCORE Information Security Lab) at the University of Calgary.[4]

She has served as the program co-chair of CRYPTO, ASIACRYPT, ASIACCS and Financial Cryptography and as a program committee member of major conferences in cryptology and information security. She has also served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), and is currently an Associate Editor of IET Information Security and Journal of Mathematical Cryptology.[4] In 2023 she was elected a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.[5]

Publications

Her research interest is in cryptography and information theory and their applications to information security systems. She has published over 500 papers,[6] including:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Alberta Innovates". Archived from the original on 1 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Mathematics Genealogy Project page".
  3. ^ "Rei Safavi-Naeini". Faculty of Science. 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  4. ^ a b "ISPIA People Rei Safavi-Naeini". Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  5. ^ {{Cite web |title=Rei Safavi-Naeini IACR Fellow |url=https://www.iacr.org/fellows/2023/safavi.html}
  6. ^ "Research Gate".

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